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A pilot was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon, March 3, after his blue and yellow biplane crashed in the dry Santa Ana River in Redlands, authorities said.
San Bernardino County Fire Department air medics treated the pilot for a minor injury.
The pilot was taken to Loma Linda Univer

Updates with motorist's death
One person was killed in a three-vehicle crash on the eastbound 91 freeway in Corona on Tuesday afternoon, March 3, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The crash involved a white sedan, a van and a third vehicle, the CHP website said. The collision was reported at 12:10 p.m. The Riversid

Highway 60 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning, March 3, for police activity from Interstate 10 to Gilman Springs Road in Moreno Valley, CHP and Caltrans officials reported.
The closure began before 10 a.m.
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A road rage incident on Interstate 15 in Wildomar Monday evening left a couple hospitalized with major injuries and two others behind bars, authorities said.
Gabriel Elijah Bowker, 20, of Grand Terrace, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, according to jail records an

Sometimes a little planning goes a long way.
A man broke into a Bloomington convenience store to burglarize it by dropping through the ceiling, but his plan lacked one important part: an escape route, sheriff's officials said.
Police got the call at 4:42 a.m. Sunday, March 1, reporting the break-in at Shop and Go Market in the 11

Three people were injured in a five-vehicle crash at Warren Road and Upperline Avenue in San Jacinto Monday evening.
One of the occupants had to be extracted by firefigthers, according to a Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department news release.
Two of the injured were taken by ambulance to area hospitals: one with moderate injur

Two men who led police on a chase and a stand-off in a trailer park have been arrested, police said.
An officer spotted the pair driving a stolen vehicle around 9:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, near Vineyard Avenue near Highway 60 in Ontario. The officer tried to stop the suspects, but they sped away, said Ontario police Sgt. Jeff H

At least one patient was air lifted from a Montclair crash scene on Interstate 10, a CHP incident log shows.
The crash was reported about 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 3, on the westbound side west of Monte Vista Avenue. Two vehicles -- one with major front-end damage and one with major rear-end damage -- were blocking the number 3 and 4 lane

A 38-year-old Blythe dirt biker died after crashing along the embankment of an irrigation canal in that Colorado River city, say police and coroner's officials.
Bradley Clayton died about three hours after the 11:32 a.m. wreck Sunday, March 1, on the east bank of a Palo Verde Irrigation District canal just south of Tenth Avenue.

Southern California authorities have arrested a man they allege kidnapped a 16-year-old New York girl and raped her over five days in a recreational vehicle.
Forty-nine-year-old Buck Wylde Murphy, of Victorville, was arrested Thursday, Feb. 26, in Apple Valley and the girl was rescued. He was charged Monday in San Bernardino County Super

A phony report of a double-murder -- and threats of additional violence -- prompted police to surround a San Bernardino house and briefly close nearby streets, investigators say.
"He claimed he had shot his parents," Lt. Dan Gomez recalled of the 5:26 p.m. hoax Monday, March 2, that drew an intense police response on the 6700 block of Sh

A pair of problems created gridlock for freeway motorists in both directions through Cajon Pass, where the backups are expected to linger long into the night, say Caltrans and California Highway Patrol officials.
A big-rig caused trouble in the northbound lanes near Cleghorn Road at 8:55 a.m. Monday, March 2, when the truck drifted acros

Inland Empire residents, don’t get used to snowy weekends.
Though storms have dropped snowflakes onto Inland mountains the past two weekends, a repeat performance isn’t in the offing.
A 20 percent chance of snow in both Big Bear and Idyllwild today will give way to sunny skies the rest of the week, according to the Na

After about two hours’ deliberations, a jury on Monday, March 2, found a man who strangled his 71-year-old grandmother at her Murrieta home guilty of first-degree murder.
Kyle McLean, 23, had admitted on the witness stand that he killed his grandmother but said it wasn’t premeditated. McLean told the jurors he had been using

A big rig jackknifed on Highway 91 near Corona, blocking lanes and triggering a SigAlert.
It happened at 11:56 a.m. Monday, March 2, on the westbound side east of Green River Road, a CHP incident log showed.
The truck was blocking 3-4 lanes and crews had to saw the front end of the trailer off to remove the wreckage, said Caltran

A vehicle overturned off Highway 189 near the south shore of Lake Arrowhead on Monday afternoon, March 2, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Other motorists stopped to help the victims, including a young girl, out of the vehicle. The crash happened near Blue Jay Bay.
The crash was reported about 1 p.m. An ambulance responded

A body found in a Riverside orange grove with a gun shot wound has been determined to be a suicide, a police official said.
A passerby made the grim discovery at 8:43 a.m. in the 2200 block of Gratton Street near Dufferin Avenue, said Officer Javier Cabrera.
Emergency crews found the body, and another witness reported hearing a g

A crash was blocking lanes and triggered a SigAlert on Highway 91 in Riverside, CHP officials said.
The crash was reported at 6:32 a.m. Monday, March 2, on the eastbound side east of Tyler Street, the log shows.
The crash blocked at least one lane and a SigAlert was issued.
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A hit-and-run driver may not get away so easily due to a tell-tale piece of evidence -- the victim's bumper was stuck on the suspect's vehicle.
The vehicle, described only as an SUV, struck a pickup truck about 5 a.m. Monday, March 2, on southbound Interstate 15 north of Interstate 215, a CHP incident log shows.
The vehicle kept

Grease left unattended on a stove sparked a fire in a Rancho Cucamonga apartment Sunday night, March 1, officials said.
The fire was reported at 8:44 p.m. on the second floor of a three-story apartment complex in the 10400 block of Arrow Highway, said Kelley Donaldson, spokeswoman for the Rancho Cucamonga Fire District.
A neighbo

A suspected DUI driver fled from officers and was arrested after a foot pursuit in Wildomar Sunday morning, March 1, authorities said.
About 4:20 a.m., deputies patrolling the area of Collier Avenue and Hunco Way saw a 2005 Toyota Corolla swerving from lane to lane.
Deputies tried to get the driver to pull over. He continued driv

A crash backed up traffic on the westbound 10 Freeway in the San Gorgonio Pass Sunday, March 1.
A sedan and a pickup collided about 2:30 p.m. near the Main Street exit, according to a California Highway Patrol incident report.
No one was injured, but the accident slowed traffic to a crawl from Cabazon to Beaumont, according to th

A fight at a gas station Sunday, March 1, ended with a motorist trying to flee, but dying in a freak accident when he fell out of the car and was pinned, police say.
The two suspects who initiated the fight fled the scene, police said.
The incident was reported about 11:40 a.m. at an Arco station at Highland and Mountain View ave

*UPDATE: All lanes on Highway 330 clear
A jeep fire brought traffic to a standstill on Highway 330 in the San Bernardino Mountains Sunday afternoon, March 1, officials said.
The fire was reported at 2:21 p.m. on Highway 330 about halfway between Highland and Running Springs, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Two slaying suspects -- a man and woman -- led California law enforcement on a freeway chase into Arizona where a Riverside County sheriff's deputy fatally shot the woman, officials in both states said.
The confrontation happened Saturday, Feb. 28, along Interstate 10 west of Quartzsite, Arizona.
The incident began at 2:17 p.m. w